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Hello tux, I do apologise that this has turned into a much longer process than we envisaged. The next generation of software will in fact be SigScribe10. The good news is that there will be a taste of SigScribe10 in the release of SigScribe4 version 1.1.11 next week. The taste is that of conditional...

caedave,

Understood. We'll certainly look at adding that feature.

Caedave,

A fouling bar can easily be accommodated using SigScribe4. You simply provide a blue lever in the frame - it doesn't need to be connected to anything - then, when defining the route for the affected signal, reverse the blue lever so that it is included in the definition.

Hello ChrisF. Welcome aboard. You are correct in what you say. At this stage, neither our Frames nor our software can offer conditional locking. However, the next generation of SigScribe4 (probably SigScribe5) is under development and expected to be released around the middle of 2007. It will handle...

Hello signalhunter, By all means send me a copy of your ss4 file. I am assuming the signals 2, 3, 4 are in sequence. It sounds as though you have interlocked 4 with 2 and 3. You are probably assuming that this provides sequential locking. Unfortunately, sequential locking is not possible with our fr...

Thank you for your observations, James. Let me respond to some of your points. 1. We will look again at the possibility of supplying the 3mm taps, although you are only the second customer who has expresssed any difficulty in obtaining one. The other lived in a semi-remote part of Australia and the ...

Zoë, To simulate economical points locks, you simply use standard points without toggling the FPL. Use either a black lever or a black/blue lever. To simulate a Fouling Bar (also known as a Clearance Bar) life is slighlty more complicated. This is a feature we'll add to SigScribe4 soon, but in the m...

Thanks for the lead, DownMain. I'll follow it up with those family and friends who have access to subscription TV.

Many years ago (in fact, decades), I saw on TV a movie set in WWII Britain involving a train load of sea mines being transported from factory to port. It is somehow determined that one of the mines is booby-trapped with a timer. The train is shunted back along a disused siding where a bomb disposer ...

For the information of other readers, roger has contacted MODRATEC Help and provided a SigScribe4 file illustrating his interlocking issue. Unfortunately, roger, what you are trying to do requires conditional interlocking which is not possible with the MODRATEC Lever Frame at its present stage of de...

Our investigation of this problem has revealed a bug in the situation where FPLs are associated with slip formations. We're working on a fix and we'll let you know when an update to SigScribe4 is available.

stroudley realised the mistake without needing my help - he hadn't fully defined all of his signal routes.

Thanks stroudley for reporting this issue.

We can confirm that the problem you have indicated also occurs on our test system - we are investigating the cause of this bug and will advise of the solution as quickly as possible.

Because the MODRATEC Lever Frame does not, at its current stage of development, support conditional interlocking, then neither does SigScribe4 which simulates the MODRATEC Lever Frame. For those who need to achieve the appearance of conditional interlocking on their model railway, the notes under th...

Because of interest in the MODRATEC Lever Frame by modellers of non-British pattern signalling schemes, some comments about Conditional Interlocking are in order. This particularly applies to "speed" signalling as opposed to "route" signalling. It should be understood that the MO...